Blake and Homosexuality

Hobson, C.

Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality. In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-02-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312234515

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-04705-2

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249